Find horse boarding facilities offering full, partial and self-care board. Compare barns by location, amenities and service level. Read our guide on how to choose a boarding facility before you tour.
Lake and Pines Ranch pairs 60 acres of rotational pasture with 80 acres of private trails connecting to Pine Point Park and the Gateway Trail system, giving boarders up to two hours of riding without crossing a road. Horses move through four separate pastures with round-the-clock outdoor access, fed free-choice hay from a central shed […]
Bleu Valley Farm in Stillwater changed direction from its original purpose. Jeff and Deb Hilger built the 80-acre property as a Thoroughbred breeding and lay-up operation, work recognised with induction into the Canterbury Park Hall of Fame in 2011 and a Minnesota Thoroughbred Association Members of the Year award in 2015, before shifting the farm […]
Three McCaddens run this hunter, jumper and equitation barn half an hour from the Twin Cities. Liz McCadden trains and teaches, having co-founded Seventh Farm Riding School in 2007 and taught through the University of Minnesota, MCTC, the Science Museum of Minnesota and St. Paul community education; Tom McCadden manages the farm and the training […]
Schroeder’s Creekside Stables has cared for horses in Saint Francis for more than eleven years and holds Minnesota Horse Council certification. Boarders choose between stall board, with horses in at night and out during the day, and full outside board, and either way receive Purina Strategy feed and hay twice daily unless an owner supplies […]
Breeding Arabians at 26125 Tucker Road since 1972, Regent Arabians stands the stallion Cairos+, a Legion of Honor winner, two-time US Sport Horse Top Ten and three-time Region 10 Sport Horse and Dressage champion, and offers brood mare services alongside boarding and lessons. The 18-plus-acre farm holds a barn of 35-plus stalls, a heated 66-by-125 […]
A weekly newsletter goes out to everyone on the board list, an unusual line to find printed inside a boarding package. Stalls are $750 a month and matted, pasture board is $400, and both tiers bring quality hay, tack rooms, a wash area, a lounge and use of the heated indoor arena as well as […]
Saddleseat is the discipline, and the stud page carries one stallion: Off Limits, a 2014 Saddlebred by My Secrets Out out of Majestic She Said, at a $1,200 fee. Three Mulligans run the place — Michelle as owner, Madison as trainer with World Championship status in hand and national titles under saddle, and Morgan as […]
Built in 2016 for hunters and jumpers, the Jordan facility puts a heated 110-by-200 indoor arena alongside two outdoor rings, 200 by 250 and 110 by 220, both with drain tile. Twenty-eight heated 12-by-12 stalls have mattresses and rubber paver floors over in-floor heat, with fifteen more at 12 by 10. Fifteen paddocks and ten […]
Trail riding along the Minnesota River fills the day at this Carver operation, a working ranch since 1962 spread over more than 400 acres with a string of 50 horses. An hour out costs $60 in cash or $63 on a card, two hours $120 or $125, and private rides with your own guide are […]
Jolene opened this Big Lake barn on 13 June 2019, with family doing the interior work and all the pasture fencing; the name stands for Horses Open Peoples Eyes. Three board levels are published: pasture at $425 a month with run-in sheds and automatic waterers, stall board at $550 where owners clean their own stalls […]
Golden Ridge Stables has offered hunt-seat riding instruction from its Lakeville facility since 1986. Lessons run in private or semi-private formats of two to four riders, with each hour-long session structured around grooming, tacking up, mounted work and cooling out, scheduled into late-afternoon, evening and Saturday slots. Golden Ridge Camp extends the same format into […]
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